Leslie majored in Performance and Directing at Fordham University where she studied with Daniel Alexander Jones, Tina Benko, Elizabeth Margid, Dawn Saito, Elena McGhee and Grace Zandarski.

She studied abroad at the Moscow Art Theatre and in Paris with NYU, studying contemporary French theatre. She was an apprentice at Williamstown and continued her acting and improv education with UCB, The Pearl Conservatory and She-Collective, among others. She is an intermediate French speaker.

A singer and actress, some highlights include Stop the Virgens at St. Ann’s Warehouse with Karen O, dir. by Adam Rapp; Turn of the Screw (David Rubinstein Atrium-Lincoln Center) dir. by Michael Kimmel with music & lyrics by Drew Gasparini; Pace in The Trestle at Pope Lick Creek (Hartford, CT).

Leslie trains ~weekly in Tina Benko and Pat Dooley’s On-cam JAM.